The lawyer of the woman who claims she was raped by President Moshe Katsav on Tuesday left a ceremony commemorating IDF soldiers killed during the Yom Kippur war after the crowd was asked to stand in honor of the president.

Attorney Kinneret Barashi, whose father was killed in the war, said Katsav should not have presided over the ceremony as long as he was under investigation for allegedly raping a former aide.

"I would have expected him not to have showed up at the ceremony and not humiliate me with his presence," Barashi said.

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"For 32-years I've been attending this ceremony and this morning when we were asked to stand in his honor, after three months of being exposed to the suspicions against him, I no longer could."